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Scythian Poison Scythicon: Deadly arrows
Scythian Poison Arrows The Scythians were famous for their deadly composite bows. They smeared their arrowheads with poison to make each of their successful shots...
Scythian Cannabis in Ancient Ukraine: Herodotus discovers hemp for Greeks
Man’s Great Benefactor “Throughout the ages, Cannabis has been extolled as one of man’s greatest benefactors and cursed as one of his greatest scourges. Cannabis...
Khokhols: Ilya Repin’s Ukrainian Cossacks
Repin & Cossacks’ Reply World-famous painter Ilya Repin devoted 10 years to creating his painting The Reply of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan....
Khokhol Hairstyle: Millennium-Old Mark of Nobility of Kyiv Rus Rulers
Leo the Deacon Byzantine court historian Leo the Deacon met Kyiv ruler Sviatoslav the Brave in person in 971 AD. Leo’s description of the famous...
Older than Stonehenge and Pyramids: Megalithic Cromlech Kurgan in Ukraine
Excavations In early 2021, archaeologists began excavating a huge mound south of Dnipro in central Ukraine; it was 7.5 meters high and 50 meters in...
Homer’s Iliad & Ancient Ukraine: Achilles’ Burial of his friend Patroclus
Patroclus Burial In Chapter 23 of the Iliad, Homer describes the epic scenes of Patroclus’ burial, which Achilles organized for his friend. The funeral ritual included...
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Valuev Circular banning Ukrainian language in Ukraine was issued on July...
Valuev Circular was a secret decree (ukaz) issued by Pyotr Valuev, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire, by which publications (religious and educational literature recommended for the use...
World’s Oldest Gold in the Wealthiest Burial of the 5th Millennium...
In October 1972, near the modern-day city of Varna in Bulgaria a vast Copper Age necropolis dating to the 5th Millennium BC was discovered...
Kyiv’s Independence Square (Maidan) as seen by John Steinbeck after WW2,...
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Kyiv King Yaroslav the Wise and the Wheel of Law/ Dharma...
In Buddhism, the Dharma Chakra is widely used to represent the Buddha's Dharma (Buddha's teaching and the universal moral order), Gautama Buddha himself, and...
Antonov helps out Boeing in the extreme freezing conditions
Ukrainian AN-124 "Ruslan" made a flight from Zurich, Switzerland to Canadian Iqaluit with an engine for Boeing-777 which had to make an emergency landing...
Early Ukraine as part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Heirs of Kyiv Rus
Quotes below are from “The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999” by Yale Professor Dr. Timothy Snyder published in 2003 (the publishing...
The Groenings, The Simpsons and Ukraine
"The Simpsons” is the best satire of contemporary American culture. For those interested in Mennonites involved in mass culture, it is also a case...
Meeting at the Elbe: Lt. William Robertson (U.S. Army) and Lt....
April 25, 1945, the day American troops and the troops of the First Ukrainian Front met at the Elbe River, near Torgau in Germany...
Scythians in The Iliad of Homer: ‘Most decent men alive’
Iliad, Book 13 Book 13 of the Iliad describes a crucial battle for the ships. It starts with the following lines: But once Zeus had driven...
Scythian golden gorytos found in Ukraine with the scenes of the...
The gorytos (bow-and-arrow holder) discovered in one of Scythian Royal Kurgans in Ukraine puzzled the scholars who analyzed it. Because although it dates to...
Richard Gere auctions his 30k-Mile 1999 Jaguar XK8 Convertible to support Ukraine
"The full sale amount, including the BaT buyer’s fee, will be split evenly between the World Central Kitchen and Open Arms Ukraine, both of which are 501(c)(3)...
’20 Days in Mariupol’ Documentary brings Ukraine its first Oscar
Director Mstyslav Chernov while accepting the Best Documentary Feature Oscar for 20 Days In Mariupol: “This is the first Oscar in Ukrainian history. And...